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JAPAN

Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2017
Survey finds fewer Japanese now see United States in favorable light
By Yoshio Takahashi
Support for the United State in Japan has dropped to the lowest level in nine years as only a quarter of Japanese say they have confidence in U.S. President Trump's policies.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 18, 2017
Japan's oldest village by age sees LDP leadership as key for survival
By Ami Miyazaki and Kiyoshi Takenaka
Chikara Imai, 73, is quick to dismiss the new parties in Sunday's national election, saying old ties with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party is what the country's most elderly village needs for survival.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 18, 2017
Japanese police processed 7,625 tailgating incidents in 2016, including apparent cases of road rage
Police across the nation in 2016 took action a total of 7,625 times in cases where drivers failed to keep a safe distance between their vehicles and those ahead of them, citing violations of the road traffic law, National Police Agency data showed Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics / Decision 2017
Oct 18, 2017
In a small Nara city, Lower House vote set to test Kibo no To's strength against LDP
By Eric Johnston
Ikoma, a small city of about 120,000 people, lies just over the border from Osaka in northern Nara Prefecture. It's known for its bamboo products, especially whisks used in the traditional tea ceremony. A cable car that travels up Mount Ikoma, opened in 1918, is said to be the oldest in Japan.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Oct 18, 2017
Tokyo's 'Blade Library' offers joy of blade running to amputees
Haruta Saito, a young amputee who dreams of becoming a Paralympian, remembers strapping on a prosthetic "running blade" for the first time.
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2017
JR firms offer cross-country train tour featuring a ride on the resurrected Cassiopeia
The seven Japan Railways Group companies have announced that they will offer a special across-Japan sightseeing tour plan using 24 select trains, including the Cassiopeia overnight limited express, whose regular operations ended in March last year.

ASIA PACIFIC

Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 18, 2017
U.S. Pacific Command chief Harris says Kim's nuclear ambitions are a 'recipe for disaster'
The top U.S. military commander in the Pacific warned the situation in North Korea is a "recipe for disaster," as the region prepares for U.S. President Donald Trump's first visit to the region.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 18, 2017
How a homemade tool helped North Korea's missile program
By Hyonhee Shin and James Pearson
In 2009, a pop video from North Korea celebrated a new national hero — one that outside experts would later realize was at the heart of the secretive state's banned nuclear and missile programs.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 18, 2017
North Korea, feared to hold nuclear test at start of Chinese congress, sends congratulations
North Korea sent a congratulatory message to China's Communist Party congress on Wednesday amid increasingly frayed relationships between the traditional allies as China tightens sanctions over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 18, 2017
Hillary Clinton says U.S. threats of war with North Korea 'dangerous, short-sighted'
Former U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that "cavalier" threats to start war on the Korean Peninsula are "dangerous and short-sighted," urging the United States to get all parties to the negotiating table.

WORLD

Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 18, 2017
Catalonia rejects Madrid's Thursday deadline for renouncing symbolic declaration of independence
Catalonia refused on Tuesday to bow to the Spanish government's demand that it renounce a symbolic declaration of independence, setting it on a collision course with Madrid later this week.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Oct 18, 2017
Islamic State's defeat in Raqqa brings U.S. new challenge to commit to a strategy for region
The defeat of the Islamic State group in its de facto capital of Raqqa, Syria, may be only the start of a wider struggle by the United States to contain any insurgency launched by the militants and to stabilize the region as Washington struggles to define a comprehensive strategy in Syria.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal / FOCUS
Oct 18, 2017
Victims in Las Vegas shooting may secure damages from affluent gunman's estate
Victims of mass shootings in the United States often win little or no damages from perpetrators, but the Las Vegas massacre may be different because the shooter is thought to have been a wealthy man, lawyers said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 18, 2017
CIA says it mistakenly 'shredded' U.S. Senate torture report — then it is found
The Central Intelligence Agency thought for months that it had mistakenly shredded a massive U.S. Senate report on its use of waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation techniques" before suddenly discovering that its copy had not been lost after all, an agency official said Tuesday.

BUSINESS

Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 18, 2017
Nissan admits improper safety inspections continued after president's public apology
By Shusuke Murai
Nissan Motor says that improper safety inspections performed by unauthorized staff continued at one of its assembly plants even after the scandal came to light last month.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 18, 2017
Toyota targets 1,000-km driving range with fuel cell concept car
Toyota Motor Corp. is set to unveil a fuel cell concept car that aims to offer 50 percent more driving range than its current hydrogen-powered sedan in a technology push that defies a rising wave of battery-powered vehicles.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 18, 2017
Lexus 'evaluating' partnership with Weinstein Co.
Toyota Motor Corp.'s Lexus unit said on Tuesday it is evaluating its partnership with film and TV production firm The Weinstein Company after allegations that co-founder Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed or assaulted a number of women.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 18, 2017
Airbus stake in Bombardier C Series jet seen putting Boeing in catch-up mode
Airbus SE's acquisition of a majority stake in Bombardier Inc.'s C Series plane threatens to leave Boeing Co. trailing in a looming race to develop a new generation of more advanced short-haul jets.

Opinion

EDITORIALS
Oct 18, 2017
The U.S. leaves UNESCO, again
The new director general of UNESCO should strive to restore its focus on nonpolitical issues, such as protection of World Heritage sites.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 18, 2017
The enduring basis of strong India-Japan relations
By Ramesh Thakur
Compelling economic and geopolitical factors are drawing Japan and India closer.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 18, 2017
Elections, abductees, nuclear weapons and North Korea
By Gregory Clark
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's unusual election call was designed to head off Diet questioning that could have put him in serious trouble.

Sports

SOCCER
Oct 18, 2017
Urawa beats Shanghai to reach Asian Champions League final
By Andrew MCKIRDY
Urawa Reds advanced to the final of the Asian Champions League for the first time since 2007 with a 2-1 aggregate win over China's Shanghai SIPG after winning Wednesday's semifinal second leg 1-0.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Oct 18, 2017
Japanese men prepare for rigorous qualifying schedule
By Kaz Nagatsuka
The format for the men's FIBA World Cup qualifiers has been changed from a tournament format to a system that will see teams play each other in home-and-away contests.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League
Oct 18, 2017
Levanga chief Takehiko Orimo striving to juggle responsibilities
By Kaz Nagatsuka
There is probably nobody else in Japan who devotes themselves to basketball as much as Takehiko Orimo, who, at age 47, is still a competitive player and also serves as president of the Levanga Hokkaido.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 18, 2017
NFL weighs protesting players' passion against Trump rebukes as kneeling ranks surge
National Football League officials on Tuesday weighed the fervor of players who protest racism by kneeling for the national anthem against the anger of U.S. President Donald Trump as their two-day autumn meeting began in New York City.

CULTURE

Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 18, 2017
Busan International Film Festival spotlights female directors and plenty of Japanese content
By Philip Brasor
The 22nd Busan International Film Festival, which opened Oct. 12 and ends Saturday, seemed to be in better shape this year.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 18, 2017
'Outrage Coda': Takeshi Kitano's kill count climbs high for trilogy's finale
By Mark Schilling
In his nearly three decades as a director, "Beat" Takeshi Kitano has won many critical plaudits and prizes abroad. But in Japan he is best known as a TV personality and comedian. These two strands of his artistic personality — master director and mass entertainer — have come together in his "Outrage"...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 18, 2017
'Dawn Wind in My Poncho': Boys come of age on a typical road trip
By Mark Schilling
Japanese road movies are many; ones featuring high school kids, relatively few. One was Daigo Matsui's 2015 "Our Huff and Puff Journey," about four high school girls in Fukuoka who set off on their commuter bikes to see a concert in Tokyo.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Oct 18, 2017
Too racy for Louvre, sex sculpture 'Domestikator' finds home at Pompidou Centre
In the end it was just too kinky for the Louvre.

COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Oct 18, 2017
Ushering in a new, kinder era for Japan's zoos
By Louise George Kittaka
Lack of legal regulation means the worst facilities continue to taint Japan's image abroad.
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Oct 18, 2017
Views from Osaka: Will you vote on Sunday? If so, based on what? If not, why not?
By David Allegretti
Japanese citizens in Kansai's commercial capital were asked whether they plan to cast a ballot in the Oct. 22 Lower House poll — and why (or why not).
Tokyo hit by torrential rainfall at rush hour
People line up at Shibuya Station in Tokyo as they try to avoid the heavy rain on Thursday.
Foreign drivers in Japan to face tougher license conversion rules from October
According to the National Police Agency, there were 75,905 people who converted their foreign driver’s license to a Japanese one in 2024, up from 48,885 in 2019.
Chinese fighters came within 30 meters of Japanese spy aircraft, Tokyo says
A Chinese JH-7 fighter jet makes an near an Air Self-Defense Force YS-11EB surveillance aircraft over the East China Sea this week in this image released Thursday.
Air India crash report to offer peek into last seconds
Members of the Indian Army's engineering arm prepare to remove the wreckage of an Air India aircraft in Ahmedabad on June 14.
What Japanese politics could look like after Upper House election
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who heads the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (center) waves to attendees as he departs after delivering a campaign speech in Yokohama on Sunday.
New IG Arena set to dial down temperature at Nagoya Basho, in a good way
With IG Arena getting glowing early reviews as the Nagoya Basho’s replacement venue, it may be a while before fans wax nostalgic about the Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium.
Once a niche, anime is now mainstream content for Netflix and other streaming services
Though Netflix remains the dominant choice globally for anime viewers, Amazon Prime Video has also invested heavily in anime, steadily adding titles to their catalogue.
NGOs condemn rise in anti-immigrant rhetoric ahead of Upper House vote
Sanseito head Sohei Kamiya holds a board that reads "Japanese First" in Tokyo on July 2. In a joint statement on Tuesday, eight human rights nongovernmental organizations described the far-right party's stance as "hate speech."
Japanese dancers find a home abroad at Houston Ballet
“Giselle” lead Yuriko Kajiya (center), performing with Connor Walsh as Albrecht, is one of six Japanese dancers at Houston Ballet.
From the Abes to the Ohtanis: How siblings shape athletic development
Olympic judoka Uta Abe (second from left) and Hifumi Abe (second from right) with their brother Yuichiro (center) and their parents. “I’m always consciously trying to be a good older brother,” Yuichiro said.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Mount Fuji is considered one of Japan's most iconic symbols and is a major draw for tourists. It's still a mountain, though, and potential hikers need to properly prepare for any climb.
What it takes to save lives on Mount Fuji
By Alex K.T. Martin

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